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From Reuters:

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American battery producer, A123, have won a lucrative contract with SAIC to supply them with batteries for a forthcoming vehicle. A123 vice president, Jason Forcier, SAIC are planning to use them in a new vehicle, which CCT is guessing is the Roewe…

From Reuters:

Top Chinese automaker SAIC Motor Corp (600104.SS) in October sold 28.8 percent more vehicles than a year earlier, extending a rebound from August bolstered by the peak auto sales season.

SAIC, which runs vehicle manufacturing ventures with General Motors [GM.UL] and Volkswagen (VOWG.DE), sold 309,501 vehicles last month,…

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From China Knowledge:

Suzuki Motor Corp, Japan’s second-largest mini-car maker, is teaming up with SAIC Motor Corp Ltd and Volkswagen AG, to establish a three-way joint venture in China, sources reported.

Reportedly, the structure of new JV may be similar with the existing three-way JV set by Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Co,…

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According to this site, SAIC are going to invest 500 million USD into a new joint venture with GM which will see them take on the Indian market in a similar manner to the Chinese market.

Detroit-based General Motors, which entered into…

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SAIC have reportedly chosen Tangshan to be the site of their new New Energy research centre. SAIC have reached an agreement with Tangshan Peoples Government regarding the location of the new R&D center

According to the agreement the two parties are reportedly planning to work on the development of pure electric coaches, hybrid vehicles, and traditional…

From the Korean Times

State prosecutors said Wednesday a controversial transfer of technology for gasoline-electric hybrid cars to the China-based Shanghai Automotive…

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China Car Times posted pictures of an unnamed SAIC model earlier this year, confusion reigned over what we were exactly looking at. Was it an electric mule (a lack of a tail pipe give us this clue), or some other SAIC mule.

Now the secret appears to be out,…

Rumors regarding the possible purchasing of Buick by SAIC have been going around since the probability of GM going bankrupt started early last year.

Various media outlets are linking SAIC to the possible purchase of either Buick or Saturn. The potential Buick purchase is linked to the brand only, which which give SAIC the rights to use the Buick…

SAIC are showing a very rough outline of a concept car they will show at the Shanghai Show in a few weeks. Check it out for yourself here.

Any guesses as to what the car may well be? Electric beast, Hydrogen hucker or future MG7/750 replacement? Either way, it looks…

Rumors on the Malaysian Motor Trader forum say that SAIC and Proton are in talks over a model swap. The rumors state that SAIC could be giving Proton access to the Roewe 750 platform (which is in turn the Rover 75 platform) which…

SAIC, the 51% share holder in Ssangyong, purchased 4.5 million dollars worth of vehicles and SUV’s from Ssangyong in December as a means to supports Ssangyong. SAIC purchased 1000 Istana MPV’s and an unknown number of Actyon SUV’s.

SAIC has come under a lot of pressure from the Korean government recently with regards to ‘rescuing’ Ssangyong.

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Recent news reports have said that Ssangyong is out of cash, and more shocking, they don’t have enough monies on hand to pay their workers salaries. Ssangyong’s biggest share holder, SAIC, own 51% of Ssangyong which gives them a controlling share in the Korean SUV maker. But when it came to the crunch last week, Ssangyongs request for a cash injection…

Korean automaker, Ssangyong,( now owned by SAIC), found themselves in a bit of a pickle earlier this year when oil price…

 

Chinese media reports are quoting the VW China Executive Vice President Zhang Sui Xin as saying that the…

Seeing as SAIC is a major stakeholder in Ssangyong (51%) why would anyone get upset about ‘leaking’ hybrid information to them?

CNN reports:

South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Co. said Sunday it has never leaked hybrid car-related technologies to China’s SAIC Motor Corp.

“As…

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This old smoker was spotted last Saturday, but being with wife, there was no time to check it out. From afar, it looked like a classic Hong Qi – Red Flag, but further inspection on the Sunday (sans wife) showed that the car was actually an Old Shanghai – the precursor to SAIC.

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Urm, yeah:

Jun. 5, 2008 (China Knowledge) – SAIC Motor Corp Ltd, China’s biggest auto maker, displayed its first self-made luxury sports car Fengyi at the Auto Components Shanghai 2008, local newspaper reported.

The concept car, which was designed with the illumination of a phoenix about to take flight, attracted a lot of attention at…

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The latest incarnation of the Ssangyong Chairman is to come to China later this year, it brings with it plenty of heritage, a nice interior and a big price tag: 1 million RMB.

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Huatai have acquired the rights to make the Hyundai Sante Fe in China from their joint venture partner Hyundai. Huatai…

SAIC top brass are probably kicking themselves that they didnt stick a bid in for Landrover and Jaguar, after a record breaking 2007 they can easily afford it!

In 2007 SAIC sold 1.69 million vehicles, which translates into a 25.8% year on year increase on 2006. Profit in RMB was 4.63 billion RMB. Of the 1.69 million vehicles sold, 1.13 million were…

Pictures have floated out onto the Korean internet of the latest Ssangyong Chairman luxury sedan,…